Trump has foreign policy principles: Syria shows how they work. Don't say you weren't warned From DoyleMcManus ⬇️
His strategy for defeating Islamic State — “I would bomb the s— out of them,” he said in his campaign — didn’t include boots on the ground.
For his first years in the White House, Trump was surrounded by aides who tried to nudge him toward a conventional version of conservative internationalism: support for traditional allies, competition with Russia and China, a muscular U.S. role in the Middle East. The popular notion that Trump is mercurial and inconsistent in foreign policy is mistaken, Thomas Wright of the Brookings Institution wrote inthat remains one of the clearest dissections of the president’s strategic thinking: “He has a remarkably coherent and consistent worldview.”
He admires authoritarian rulers, including Turkey’s Erdogan, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.And he’s allergic to lasting commitments, whether with small, dependent partners like the Kurds or longstanding allies like Germany, France and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.“Trump’s starting point and defining emotion on foreign policy is anger — not at America’s enemies, but at its friends,” Wright wrote.
In 1990, Trump expressed grudging admiration for China’s massacre of protesting students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. “They were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength,” he said inAnd in a 2000 book on foreign policy, Trump bluntly proposed U.S. withdrawal from NATO, an idea he has frequently returned to.
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